Friday, March 31, 2017

Dr. Joseph Farrell returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss Rotten to the (Common) Core: Public Schooling, Standardized Tests, and the Surveillance, a book he co-wrote with Gary Lawrence. We talk briefly about the troubled history of compulsory education in the United States and the secret agendas behind it. Later we discuss how corporations are enriching themselves under the guise of public education and the problems with standardized testing which Dr. Farrell sees as a mass data collection operation being carried out for the benefit of the corporate state.

Thanks again to Tim Kelley, always accessible via the sidebar here, for making this available to us all! Thanks also to Joseph Farrell @ gizadeathstar.com.,for being such an interesting, well read and widely published, interviewee!

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Yet, on several key issues of this complicated relationship between the two North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, a head-on collision with potentially unpredictable consequences seems more and more possible.

These flashpoints include Washington’s handling of Mr. Erdogan’s Pennsylvania-based nemesis, cleric Fethullah Gulen. Even more important is the growing American support for Syrian Kurdish forces affiliated with the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a group designated as terrorist by Ankara and Washington alike.

Wall Street Journal acknowledged PKK / YPG affiliation.

PKK and friends at Tabqa Dam, Syria

“There had been enthusiasm in Ankara, and hope that a reset [with Washington] can be envisioned,” said Sinan Ulgen, a former Turkish diplomat who heads the Edam think tank in Istanbul. “Today there is an awakening that the relationship with Trump and the Trump administration may not unfold the way Ankara had initially hoped for.”

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the head of the House intelligence committee, put it less diplomatically in an appearance this month on Fox News. “Our relationship with Turkey is strained and I think it’s going to become even more complicated as we begin to try to get ISIS out of Iraq and Syria,” Mr. Nunes said.

Over the past two years, Ankara also seethed at the U.S. aid for PYD (YPG) in northern Syria. Instead of reversing that policy, as Ankara had expected, Washington appears to be doubling down on support for the Syrian Kurdish group. In early March, the Pentagon went as far as deploying American forces between PYD and Turkish lines near the northern Syrian town of Manbij, effectively blocking a planned offensive by Turkey and its Syrian allies. Then, in recent days, the U.S.—in its most high-profile military operation in Syria so far—airlifted the PYD and its allied Arab fighters across the Euphrates, to the strategic Tabqa Dam near Raqqa.

QUESTION: (In Turkish.)SECRETARY TILLERSON: Well, those were the subjects of our
conversations today, to have an exchange of views regarding the most –
the best way forward to secure areas inside of Syria, create zones of
stabilization, to allow the return of people to Syria and to set the
stage for a longer-term political solution. I think the exchange of
views was very helpful to both of us today and we will continue to work
together on the way forward.
In terms of the future of Raqqa, we look forward to the liberation of
Raqqa and the return of its control to local – to its local citizens,
its authorities, and to putting it under local control for security so
that all of the Syrians who had to flee that area can return.

QUESTION: Thank you. Mr. Secretary, how do you convince the
Turkish Government that partnering with Kurdish YPG rebels is essential
in defeating ISIS when the government here calls that partnership an
unacceptable one with a terrorist group?
And Mr. Foreign Minister, your governor has been highly critical of
the United States over the arrest of Mehmet Atilla this week, saying you
should have at least received advance notice of it. How has that
impacted your discussions here today, and how do you respond to charges
that Americans like Pastor Andrew Brunson are being arrested here to be
used as a bargaining chip for the extradition of Pastor Gulen?FOREIGN MINISTER CAVUSOLGLU: Can you repeat the first thing, that I couldn’t get the first thing that --

SECRETARY TILLERSON: Well, as I indicated in the previous
response to the question, we had a very good discussion and conversation
today both at the prime minister’s level and the president around an
exchange of views of how best to secure areas going forward in Syria.
We’re exploring a number of options and alternatives and we had a good
discussion around those and there’s additional, I think, consideration
on both sides yet to come.FOREIGN MINISTER CAVUSOGLU: (In Turkish.)SECRETARY TILLERSON: In response to the question regarding the
notification, that is certainly the intent on the part of the consul
office here, is to advise anyone when there’s been a change of status of
their visa if we’re able to reach them. So that is a normal procedure.FOREIGN MINISTER CAVUSOGLU: (In Turkish.)QUESTION: Yes, good afternoon. Lesley Wroughton from Reuters.
This is a question for Secretary Tillerson. The minister said that the –
that you – that the United States has admitted there’s no difference
between the YPG and the PKK. Do you believe that you have overcome your
differences over this issue and that you can move forward concretely in
Syria in the fight to retake Raqqa, given – if you’ve overcome those
differences?
The other question I have is the previous administration said that
Syrian President Assad must go. Nikki Haley said yesterday that the
fight in Syria cannot move forward without the issue of Assad being
resolved. How do you see that issue being moved forward as you move more
aggressively on Raqqa?

SECRETARY TILLERSON: Well, again, I think on the question of
how to carry forward with the defeat of Daesh/ISIS in Syria, let there
be no mistake, just so we can be clear, there is no space between Turkey
and the United States in our commitment to defeat Daesh, to defeat
ISIS. Not just in Syria and Iraq, but as members of the greater
coalition to defeat Daesh, anywhere Daesh shows its face on planet
Earth, they will be confronted by the coalition to defeat them on the
battlefield, as well as in the cyberspace and in the social media space.
So in terms of the tactics that are necessary to achieve that
outcome, that is why we meet. That is why we meet with our very
important partners here, as well as other very important coalition
members who are engaged directly in the military activities in Iraq and
Syria. So there is more discussion yet to be had regarding the way
forward. What we discussed today were options that are available to us.
They are difficult options, let me be very frank. These are not easy
decisions. They are difficult choices that have to be made. So this has
been very good, the conversations today were very frank, very candid,
and we will be taking those conversations away. I know the foreign
minister and the president and the prime minister, they will consider
all of the exchanges we had today, but ultimately, Turkey and the United
States will stay together in the fight as part of the broader coalition
to defeat Daesh.

Tillerson regarding his talks with Turkish leadership inc. Cavusoglu.

Difficult options. Not easy decisions. Difficult choices have to be made.

The Trump administration and Turkey appeared no closer Thursday to resolving a dispute over the Kurds' role in defeating the Islamic State group in Syria, as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited America's often nettlesome NATO ally for the first time.

Although the disagreement centers on tactics for a long-planned assault on IS' self-declared capital of Raqqa, Turkey's long-term security is also at stake. For decades, Turkey has battled Kurdish militants inside its own borders. So Turkey is loath to tolerate the U.S. partnering against IS with Syrian Kurdish fighters instead of Turkey's own military and affiliated Syrian forces.

"Let me be very frank: These are not easy decisions," Tillerson said after meeting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other top Turkish officials in Ankara.

The dispute has deepened a divide between the two allies that have agreed on little in recent years.

Turkey accuses the Kurdish fighters known as the YPG of being an extension of a Kurdish insurgent force within Turkey that the U.S. also considers a terrorist organization. Turkey says the U.S. is backing one terror group to fight another, to the detriment of Turkish security, after spending years allowing Syria's civil war to spiral out of control. But the U.S. considers Syrian Kurdish fighters the most effective force at fighting IS and critical to liberating Raqqa.

And despite Trump and Erdogan's talk of improving U.S.-Turkish ties, the countries continue to clash over many matters, including the fate of a Pennsylvania-based cleric that Turkey blames for a failed coup attempt last July.

Washington hasn't announced which fighters will lead the Raqqa operation, (no need for an announcement) though signs point to a prominent role for the Kurdish-led group, which also includes Arab fighters. The U.S. airlifted hundreds of so-called Syrian Democratic Forces behind enemy lines in Syria last week in what officials described as a key step toward Raqqa.

Tillerson said he and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu explored several ideas for the Raqqa operation, signaling no agreement. The countries will discuss the matter further, he said, insisting each is committed to defeating IS.

Yet Cavusoglu struck a far less sanguine tone, declaring that U.S. support for the Kurds already had damaged ties.

"It has negatively affected the Turkish people's sentiments toward the United States," he said in Turkish.

Re: Gulen

Also hanging over Tillerson's trip was Turkey's demand for the U.S. to extradite Fethullah Gulen, the cleric Turkey blames for instigating last year's failed coup. Gulen denies involvement. The U.S. has said Turkey hasn't provided sufficient proof of his culpability.

Tillerson and Cavusoglu

Cavusoglu insisted Turkey had provided plenty of evidence and said U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions committed to "evaluate the documents meticulously." At a minimum, he said Turkey wants the U.S. to arrest Gulen while weighing the extradition.

Tillerson didn't budge on F Gulen. Not a shocker!

Cavusoglu: "We are expecting concrete steps," he said. "We need to take mutual steps to put relations with the United States back on track."

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held a day of longer-than-planned
meetings with Turkish leaders in Ankara on Thursday, but the most senior
Trump administration official to visit the crucial NATO ally seemed to
make little headway in salvaging an increasingly troubled relationship.

Washington and Ankara disagree sharply over how to wage war against
Islamic State militants in Syria, with the U.S. backing Kurdish militias
whom the Turks disdain as terrorists.

Although Tillerson sought to put the best face possible after the
day’s drawn-out talks, it was clear no agreement was reached.

In their meeting, Erdogan reportedly warned Tillerson that Washington
must rely on “right and legitimate” actors in the fight in Syria, code
for Turkish demands that Kurdish militias be sidelined. Turkey believes
that the Kurdish-dominated People’s Protection Units and Syrian
Democratic Forces, backed by the U.S. in northern Syria, are merely
extensions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a separatist group
considered by Turkey and its allies — including the U.S. — to be a
terrorist organization.

Turkey has said it could provide boots on the ground in an offensive on Raqqah — if the Kurdish forces are kept away.

That offer was made long ago- previously covered here at the blog.

Heavy
use of the Kurdish forces was part of an Obama administration plan to
re-take Raqqah, which now appears to be the blueprint for what would
shape up as a Trump administration offensive. Turkish officials had held
out hope that President Trump would make a clean break with the
Obama-era alliance with Kurdish forces.Standing at Tillerson’s
side on Thursday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu blasted the
Obama strategy and claimed that even American officials recognized that
the militias were in cahoots with Kurdish terrorists.

Tillerson remained blank faced as Cavusoglu railed. And America’s top
diplomat repeatedly sidestepped questions about support for the Kurdish
militias.

Turkey has handed over thousands of pages and dozens of boxes of
evidence on Gulen, and on Thursday Cavusoglu repeated a demand that the
cleric be detained pending a final decision. “We are expecting some
concrete steps on [Gulen]… some temporary arrest should be made,” he
said.

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Immoral plans rely on complicity for mutual benefit which inherently implies a willingness to be silent. Or cooperation by and for the greater good of the corporations, military industrial complex, banks, global construction companies etc.,

“Actually the plan is to destroy 4 countries for Greater Kurdistan aka Israel 2.0. Donald Trump is playing right along with this plan- Israel just can’t wait for it to all fall in place. I’ll talk that up tomorrow.”

Sure, if by destroying ISIS one means.....destroying nation states - creating new one out of the blood & ashes of the destroyed state-expanding human misery, exponentially, via the increased human, drug and organ trafficking operations, massive ethnic cleansing and people displacement- destruction of families and societies- destruction of the environment etc.,

Because that is what “destroying ISIS” is really all about for the US and Israel.

The White House may not yet have formally agreed on an anti-Islamic State strategy, but their incremental choices are adding up to a coherent approach that departs from the Obama approach in four important ways.

floor framing on foundation- with more to come

I don’t see Trumps approach being a departure from the Obama’s. Rather, what I see is an expansion of the approach. Obama built the foundation for fighting ISIS and now the Donald is building the structure atop that foundation. It’s not a change it’s building, up. To yet another Trump Tower- Construction being Trump’s business.The 4 ways

First, they are prioritizing speed. President Obama’s strategy envisioned a years long campaign to defeat ISIS. While that approach had the advantage of affixing responsibility for outcomes on the countries of the region and incentivized them to develop the governing capacity essential to stabilizing the territory once regained, it paid the very steep price of humanitarian disaster for Iraqis and Syrians in ISIS’s control, escalating pressure on surrounding governments taking in refugees and buffeted by violence, decimation of moderate opposition within Syria, further radicalization within Western societies, and disaffection for our efforts by publics in the region. As Tillerson said, “Our end goal in this phase is the regional elimination of ISIS through military force.” The choices President Trump has made are dramatically picking up the pace of operations. So much so that some have begun to worry we will be the victims of battlefield success, winning before we have stabilization alliances and forces in place.

Second, they are committing the U.S. to a long-term involvement

Yup, there’s that occupation I mentioned yesterday!

By contrast, Mattis and Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford both said flat out in congressional testimony that unlike the Obama administration’s accelerated withdrawal from the region, after ISIS fight concludes, the U.S. would leave troops in Iraq for a long period of time. Signaling our commitment to outcomes rather than imposing arbitrary timelines is a significant change in approach, one providing desperately needed assurance to those who share our objectives.

Those who share ‘our objectives’ That would be Israel and the PKK

Third, they are clear about the priority being assisting the countries we want to win the wars now underway. They have unambiguously chosen a side in the fight. And while that will create qualms among many about the domestic and warfighting choices of those countries, strategy is impossible without setting priorities. Stable states working with us to stamp out terrorism is this administration’s priority for the Middle East. As Tillerson said at the coalition meeting, “When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. We must continue to keep our focus on the most urgent matter at hand.”

Yes, the US has unambiguously chose a side. They chose terrorists in the PKK. The chose Israel. They have chosen to work against Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran- which takes us to the fourth important way

Fourth, they are laying the foundation for an anti-Iran coalition once ISIS problem has been solved. The pivot to pushing back on Iran may come as an unwelcome surprise to the NATO allies and others gathered around Tillerson in Washington last week, but it is a shrewd positioning. And another way to describe shrewd positioning is good strategy.

Obama was already working on destabilizing Iran. I've covered that in a number of older posts.Trumps going to continue building on Obama’s foundation.

2-Support for the Iraqi governmentof Haider al-Abadi - Sounds nice, but, it isn’t “Providing an effective counter-balance to Iran’s influence in Baghdad” What does that mean?

3-Promotion of a political resolution of the civil war in Yemen.- What would that include?
A political resolution would only be offered after gain battlefield advantage
“Gains on the battlefield should impact the dynamics at the negotiating table. In that regard, a successful effort to take control of the Red Sea port of Hodeida could impact the Houthi calculus and lead to greater seriousness and reasonableness on their part in the negotiations”

4- Reduce Iran’s influence in Syria.

5- Concert the capabilities of our regional allies in a regional security framework that can sustain a long-term, burden-sharing effort

6-Lay the foundations for negotiations with Iran about its ambitions and behavior in the region.

Countering Iran’s regional hegemonic ambitions is a deadly serious business. In pursuing this objective, we should be careful about making threats unless we are prepared to back them up, and we should be wary of declaring objectives that we have neither the will nor interest to achieve

I opened this post by explaining exactly what it means to "destroy ISIS"

Sure, if by destroying ISIS one means.....destroying nation states -
creating news one out of the blood and ashes of the destroyed
state-expanding human misery, exponentially, via the increased human,
drug and organ trafficking operations, massive ethnic cleansing and
people displacement- destruction of families and societies- destruction
of the environment etc.,

NEW YORK: US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said on Wednesday that
Syria’s President Bashar Assad is a “big hindrance in trying to move
forward” to find an end to the country’s six-year conflict.

“I’m not
going to go back into should Assad be in or out, been there, done that,
right, in terms of what the US has done,”she told the Council of
Foreign Relations. “But I will tell you that he is a big hindrance in
trying to move forward, Iran is a big hindrance in trying to move
forward.”

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

aka Israel 2.0- It's really becoming so much more apparent. There are nearly 500 posts here covering PKK Kurdish involvement in the remake the region agenda the US is pushing dating back to 2012.
For 5 years I've written about this plan.

Can't help but notice the oil, gas and business industry is considering
the creation of Kurdistan as a real possibility. This should tell us
quite a bit!

An independent Kurdistan could be a petrol giant. Just a thought

For persons that have been following along on the blog for a while now, much of this will seem familiar. Because, much of it has been said here, on multiple occasions. Therefore
the potential for an independent Kurdish state should not be a surprise

PE: "Kurds are carefully paying attention to how Ankara decided to boycott
NAM - even though Turkish President Abdullah Gul was personally invited
by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Egypt's President Mohammed
Morsi proposed a Syria contact group - Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and
Iran - to try to solve the Syrian tragedy.

This means that Egypt - under a Muslim Brotherhood president -
privileges mediation for a civil war inside a fellow Arab country, while
Turkey sticks to a colour-blind regime change strategy, which would
only be possible with a NATO no-fly zone (it won't happen).
So the pressing question for the Kurds becomes how to profit from Ankara's each and every move. And the winner is... Israel"

Of course in the nearly 5 years that has passed since those early posts, more information came to the surface. And, Kurdistan has taken shape before all of our eyes- Cleverly obfuscated by the appearance of "ISIS" and aided by the so called war against ISIS..

Actually the plan is to destroy 4 countries for Greater Kurdistan aka Israel 2.0. Donald Trump is playing right along with this plan- Israel just can’t wait for it to all fall in place. I’ll talk that up tomorrow. For today let’s look at the sputnik link from conspiracy theorist

Halaf al-Miftah, one of the leaders of Syria's ruling Baath Party, said that he does not rule out that Washington may use the upcoming operation to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from Daesh terrorists as a tool to split Syria.

Commenting on the matter, Halaf al-Miftah told Sputnik Arabic that "the US-led international coalition does not wage war against terrorists in Syria" and that "its goal is to change the borders in the Middle East, destroy a single state in Syria and create federal entities."

"The Americans pretend that they are fighting the terrorists, which is widely broadcast by world media; although they talk a lot about it, in reality the situation in the eastern Euphrates area is completely different," he said.

Ali al-Ahmed of the Academy of Geostrategic Problems, a think tank, who told Sputnik Arabic that all the US efforts to allegedly combat terrorism are, in fact, aimed at splitting Syria.

"The international coalition can really liberate Raqqa, but they will become occupiers if they do not coordinate their actions with the Syrian Army. But they do not need coordination, because Americans want to conduct independent policy across the world," Al-Ahmed said.

The Americans fully intend to become occupiers-

Conspiracy theorist, commenter, and Scott @ Willy Loman’s both informed me of this next news item. I'll let Scott take this away while thanking consiracy theorist for the link also

SC: "The Turkish Kurd says if the U.S. is going to bust off a piece of
Iraq and Syria for Greater Kurdistan, well damn it, they better bust off
a piece of Turkey as well. Meanwhile, other Kurds who are in
communication with the U.S. in Syria and Iraq say “there is no official
information on this subject” and they say that because Americans wont
get behind a nation building program. If they knew that was the plan,
the facade of the “heroic Kurds” would crumble in a heartbeat. They
would suddenly change to the greedy, land-grabbing, power-hungry Kurds
and all the reports of the Kurds’ ethnic cleansing would make a lot more
sense.)"

The United States has pursued a strategy that entails creating an independent Kurdish state in the Middle East, Chairman of the Kurdish National Council (ENKS) Muslim Mihemed told Sputnik
Turkey, commenting on recent rumors that Washington has promised to
support Kurdish independence in exchange for Raqqa’s liberation.

“We believe that Washington’s Greater Middle East project is aimed at creating Kurdistan among other things. There is a possibility of the US establishing a Kurdish state in Syria and Iraq.
This depends on the one who came up with this initiative, Washington.
We think that if this project truly exists, it must take into account
the rights of all Kurds. Otherwise, establishing a Kurdish state would
not be possible,” he said.

The beginnings of Greater Kurdistan aka Israel 2.0

UPDATE: March 29/2017:

I forgot to add this yesterday, but, it needs to be in this post.Raqqa to "join" Greater Kurdistan Saleh Muslim lies, of course. Claiming they'll vote to be included because you're supposed to believe these are such swell guys- Here's what will happen. The Arabs, inc Christians Arabs, will be ethnically cleansed. Kurds will then vote to join Greater Kurdistan. The US will claim it was all democratically done, the Kurds voted, ignoring the displacement and the dead in the hundreds of thousands- just like it never happened. The kurd cult here in the west will cheer for this wonderful new communistic cult terror state because well, they're gullible, true believers. Sadly.

"Saleh Muslim, the co-chair of the Syrian
Kurdish PYD party, said it would be up to the people of Raqqa to decide
their future once the city is freed from Islamic State, but he thinks
the city will join the "democratic federal" system.

"We
expect (this) because our project is for all Syria ... and Raqqa can be
part of it," Muslim said in a telephone interview. "Our only concern is
that the people of Raqqa are the ones who take the decision on
everything."

Muslim added that Raqqa needed to be in
"friendly hands" otherwise it would form a "danger to all Syria,
particularly northern Syria, the federal system of northern Syria, the
areas of self administration".

Raqqa needs to be in Kurdish hands, otherwise, all those pesky Arabs and Christians would form a danger particularly to the Kurdish appropriated/ annexed territory. Oh and a danger to Israel. Israel is very happy with a middle east with way less Arabs and Christians

Monday, March 27, 2017

Yes, I’m absolutely entertaining the idea of Greece as provocateur to justify some type of NATO action against Turkey- Greece was heavily involved in the US backed coup- that failed. I’ve no doubt that, indeed, the “Keystone” Coup (think Gulen’s home state) was a US plan to overthrow the government of Turkey.

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again? The US wanted Turkey demoralized and subservient so they could get their Kurdistan aka Israel 2.0 on without any messy inconveniences- Like Operation Euphrates Shield. But the coup failed. And Operation Euphrates shield impeded the move on Raqqa.

And the move is just going full steam ahead! With ISIS doing it's usual fade away routine. Trump’s point man, Tillerson is headed to Turkey on March 30th. I expect he’s going to talk tough. Saw some early reporting that suggests this will be the case. Link

“Meanwhile, US sources said on Friday that the US Secretary of State’s visit to Ankara would be decisive with regards to the US-led campaign to regain the city of Raqqa”

Visit to Ankara would be decisive with regards to the US led campaign to annex Raqqa. Crucial, critical and conclusive, just as I expect. Tillerson is going to give Turkey their options. None of them will be to Turkey’s liking. From there Tillerson heads to NATO HQ in Brussels.

Turkey is the hardest part of the operation. The USA can't openly attack NATO's member. Something big must happen

Indeed. War must be sold with a lie. Always. That said the US doesn’t have time for a colour revolution. It’s doubtful another coup will fly.

So here is where we get to Greece, possibly involving Cyprus, acting as provocateur, creating some type of pretext to justify an action against Turkey. Keeping in mind that Turkey has no reason to provoke Greece.Turkey wants ideal conditions for their referendum, so it’s absurd to think they would “provoke” Greece.However, Greece has incentive aplenty to provoke Turkey. Doing NATO’s bidding is a plus for Greece. Greece is NATO’s big spending lackey. Greece has already acted very provocatively towards Turkey. Undoubtedly with a whole lot of support from Brussels. Unlike Turkey, Greece is beholden large to the banksters & the EU.

4- Greece & Turkey joined NATO at the same time- So a Greek Provocation would be very symbolic of an ultimate betrayal. Think Cain & Abel. Think- As it begins so shall it end.

Considering all the provocations already undertaken by NATO’s gofer, Greece, it’s safe to suggest, that Greece could and would provoke Turkey, yet again! In some way that would portray NATO’s betrayal of Turkey as necessary for the greater good. You know, the USA as the global social justice warrior.And isn't the US the ultimate social justice warrior?!

“The Greek armed forces are ready to answer any provocation,” Panos
Kammenos declared at a military parade marking the 196th anniversary of
Greece’s war of liberation against Ottoman Turkish rule. “We are ready
because that is how we defend peace.”

Defend Peace? Sure.

“I fear the period from now until the referendum in Turkey, as well
as the effort to create a climate of fanaticism within Turkish society,”
he told CNN Greece.

A climate of fanaticism? How about a climate of national pride?My oh my the negative spin.

Turkey’s EU negotiations have long been hindered by Cyprus, and talks
aimed at reuniting its estranged Greek and Turkish communities are at a
critical juncture but have stalled and are unlikely to move until after
the referendum.

“The concern on the Greek side is not so much of an intentional incident
but of an accident that then spirals out of control,” Dr Thanos Dokos,
director of the Eliamep thinktank, told the Guardian. “The whole
nationalist mood in Turkey would make such a situation difficult to
defuse.”

An accident (false flag) that spirals out of control, is what concerns Greece. To which I respond- Just make sure there are no "accidents".

“Greece has expressed its concerns to the US,” said Dokos. “But when we
don’t have a fully functional national security apparatus in Washington
which is usually the firefighter in such situations, when Nato’s
influence is limited and the EU’s even less, the big question really is
who could or would manage such a crisis if it were to happen.”

Syria’s largest Tabqa
Dam located on the Euphrates river partially has collapsed on Sunday as
a result of the fighting between armed units of the Syrian Democratic
Forces (SDF) and militants of Daesh near the city of Raqqa.

DAMASCUS
(Sputnik) — Tabqa Dam, which functions primarily as a hydropower plant,
suspended service after its control center was damaged by what could
have been an airstrike or shelling, a source told Lebanese broadcaster
Al Mayadeen, adding that technical experts could not reach the site due
to continuing fighting in the area.

2. Now only fighting on the ground, no airstrikes. Liberation of dam is slow because we want to avoid damaging it. #Raqqa#Syria

Earlier this week, US and Syrian opposition forces were air-dropped
to Syria's Raqqa province to conduct a joint operation to liberate
several villages in the vicinity of Syria's northern Al Tabqah town
from Daesh.

"The dam is designed to hold a certain amount of water and if its
floodgates are closed this will increase the water levels and could
exceed the pressure the dam can withstand," civil engineer, Mounir
Suwaid, toldThe New Arab.
"The dam has a spillway to get rid of excess water but it cannot discharge all of it," Suwaid said.
He played down the danger that the dam would collapse because of
excess water levels, however, he added that the continued air raids
could weaken the dam and lead to a disaster.
"The biggest danger lies in the repeated airstrikes and shelling near
the dam, which could crack the dam's structure," the engineer said.
IS ordered residents to evacuate the Syrian city of Raqqa on Sunday following reports on its propaganda agency Amaq that the dam "is threatened with collapse at any moment because of American strikes and a large rise in water levels."

This update is being posted at 3:40 pm est:

There are no reports present time that the dam has collapsed, however earlier today reports were coming out of Syria that the dam might collapse. SANA has no coverage of this imminent collapse or partial collapse what so ever!

Here's what I suspect... So called "ISIS" made a whole lot of noise regarding the dam and it's imminent collapse for a few reasons..

The maximum capacity of Lake Assad is 11.7 cubic kilometres (2.8 cu mi)
at a surface

Qal'at Ja'batl, an ancient castle now surrounded by the waters of Lake Assad

area of 610 square kilometres (240 sq mi), making it the
largest lake in Syria.

The project included a hydroelectric power station in the Tabqa Dam, and
the construction of a vast irrigation network capable of irrigating
640,000 hectares (2,500 sq mi) of land on both sides of the Euphrates.

Lake Assad is the most important source of drinking water to Aleppo,
providing the city through a pipeline with 80,000,000 cubic metres (2.8×109 cu ft) of drinking water per year.

Nouar Shamout, a researcher at UK-based think tank Chatham House,
explained that, with Raqqa under Islamic State, the waters of Lake
Assad/Revolution Lake were being used as a tool to “escalate fatalities
and migration rates.”

****Bonus for the interlopers (Kurd/Israel/America)- Taking the dam will enable the control of Aleppo city- Being very nearly entirely reliant on pipelines from the reservoir

2- Convenient way for ISIS to give it up to the Kurds and Americans- As they flee the alleged collapsing dam and blend in with the civilians. ISIS has repeatedly, and I mean repeatedly fled when the Kurds came to any town- I've covered this several times. Theatre.

And speaking of the convenience of ISIS fleeing

3- It's reported the Americans and their Kurd militia pals took the US desired airport.

Fighters of the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have encircled the military airport of Tabqa to the south of the Tabqa city in order to take the Raqqa city and Tabqa Dam under control.

After liberating two villages to the south and southwest of the airport last night, SDF fighters launched an offensive on the military airport.

And just like that! They got it! Syrian airport "taken back" by US Forces Just like that! Boom! Confusion caused by claiming the dam will collapse and ISIS leaves this most desired airport for the taking

US-backed local forces fighting Islamic State in Syria say they
have taken full control of a former Syrian army airport near the city of
Tabqa along the Euphrates River.The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab
militias supported by a US-led international coalition, said in a
statement on Sunday they had seized the air base.

Earlier, SDF spokesperson Talal Silo said its fighters had seized "60
to 70 per cent" of the airport but were still engaged in intense
clashes with the ultra-hardline militants inside the air base and on its
outskirts.

The Islamic State group ordered residents to evacuate the Syrian city of Raqqa on Sunday following reports that a dam contested by U.S.-backed forces upstream on the Euphrates River could collapse, activists reported.

The militants said coalition airstrikes had weakened the Tabqa Dam, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Raqqa, and that the water level behind the dam was rising

Syrian activists say the Islamic State group has ordered an evacuation from its de facto capital, Raqqa, following warnings that the Tabqa Dam upstream on the Euphrates River could collapse.

The activist-run Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently says civilians are fleeing Raqqa en masse. It says the militants are warning residents that the dam is out of service, weakened by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, and could collapse. It says water levels are rising behind the dam.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-run monitoring group, is also reporting the dam is out of service.

How long before Trumps no fly/safe zones are created. This moves looks like a worse case scenario for Syria.Turkey. And, Iran.

According to the documents at our disposal, the U.S. authorities and the
Syrian Kurds reached an agreement past week on the boundaries of the
Kurdish autonomy in the territory of Syria,which had been guaranteed to
Kurds in case of capturing Raqqa and Al-Tabqah (34 miles to the West of
Raqqa). This confirms the reports about the U.S. plans to divide Syria.

In addition, Washington has already defined the boundaries of the new
state of the Great Kurdistan on the territory of Syria and Iraq. It is
to be created after ISIS defeat and the final collapse of Syrian Arab
Republic. According to the U.S. military, Kurds remain the only force
capable of defeating ISIS.

In order to strengthen its positions the new U.S. administration
announced the upcoming liberation of the so-called ISIS capital, Raqqa.
To grease the wheels the Americans resorted to money, their weapon of
choice. They bribe ISIS field commanders and increase payments to YPG
and FSA units.

The U.S. government intends to capture Raqqa by April and to eliminate
ISIS in Syria and Iraq this summer. The implementation of these plans
requires making concessions to Kurds. This is why the U.S. promises them
an independent state in case of victory.

This was always the plan. The desired outcome for the US and Israel. The details needed fine tuning but the goal was a creation of a greater Kurdistan aka Israel 2.0.

From Tabqa I expect the move will be towards the city of Raqqa itself, and yes, some water may be let go from the dam to 'encourage' the people to leave.

I'm absolutely amazed at the lack of coverage regarding what is occurring- But then the killing and displacement that has taken place all to create the desired Kurdistan has been hidden in plain site as the "fight against ISIS". And obfuscated by many. This is why Turkey has been so blatantly and abundantly demonized in the msm and alt media-- Because betraying a NATO ally has to be spun just the right way- as I've stated time and time again.

The
Islamic State group claimed Sunday that coalition airstrikes had locked
the dam's gates, causing Euphrates River water levels to rise
dangerously behind the structure. The group warned the dam could burst.

The
coalition denied the report in a letter to The Associated Press, saying
U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces were in control of a spillway north
of the dam "which can be used to alleviate pressure on the dam if need
be."

The U.S. has provided substantial air and
ground support to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, who are
closing in on the IS capital Raqqa, 40 kilometers (25 miles) upstream
from Tabqa Dam.

The coalition says the dam has not been structurally damaged, to its knowledge, and says it has not targeted the dam.

WWF International, the world's largest conservation group, has been
accused of "selling its soul" by forging alliances with powerful
businesses which destroy nature and use the WWF brand to "greenwash" their operations.

The allegations are made in an explosive book previously barred from Britain. The Silence of the Pandas
became a German bestseller in 2012 but, following a series of
injunctions and court cases, it has not been published until now in
English. Revised and renamed Pandaleaks, it will be out next week.

Its author, Wilfried Huismann, says the Geneva-based WWF
International has received millions of dollars from its links with
governments and business. Global corporations such as Coca-Cola,
Shell, Monsanto, HSBC, Cargill, BP, Alcoa and Marine Harvest have all
benefited from the group's green image only to carry on their businesses
as usual.

Huismann argues that by setting up "round tables" of industrialists
on strategic commodities such as palm oil, timber, sugar, soy, biofuels
and cocoa, WWF International has become a political power that is too
close to industry and in danger of becoming reliant on corporate money.

"WWF is a willing service provider to the giants of the food and
energy sectors, supplying industry with a green, progressive image … On
the one hand it protects the forest; on the other it helps corporations
lay claim to land not previously in their grasp. WWF helps sell the idea
of voluntary resettlement to indigenous peoples," says Huismann.

What a strange body the WWF (formerly the World Wildlife Fund, now the
Worldwide Fund for Nature) has become these days. It is the largest, richest
and most influential environmental lobbying organisation in the world.
Originally set up in 1961 by Julian Huxley, Prince Philip, Prince Bernhard
and others, for the admirable purpose of campaigning to save species
endangered by human activity, it has morphed in the last 20 years into
something very different, more akin to a multinational corporation.

The fact that Julian Huxley, Prince Phillip and Prince Bernhard set up WWF is enough to put me off of this No Good Organization.

The WWF empire now derives a very hefty chunk of its income from partnerships
with governments, or the EU, or actual multinationals, such as Coca-Cola and
Sky, which like to use its iconic panda logo (originally designed by the
naturalist Peter Scott) to give an “eco-caring” gloss to their commercial
activities. The chief reason why it has so greatly increased its wealth and
influence is that it has joined other lobby groups, such as Friends of the
Earth and Greenpeace, in pushing to the top of its agenda that most
fashionable and lucrative of environmental causes, the “battle to halt
climate change”.

But this has led WWF into some rather odd little tangles, such as those which
have recently emerged over its activities in Tanzania. Much of its work
there is carried out under a UN climate change policy known as REDD+
(“reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation”), which is
part of the UN’s £17 billion Fast Start programme. Britain, giving £1.5
billion, is that programme’s second largest contributor after Japan.

Last November, Prince Charles, as president of WWF UK, flew to Tanzania to
hand out “Living Planet” awards to five “community leaders” involved in WWF
projects around the delta of the Rufiji River, which holds the world’s
largest mangrove forest. Part of their intention has been to halt further
damage to the forest by local farmers, who have been clearing it to grow
rice and coconuts. This is because the mangroves store unusual amounts of
“carbon” (CO2), viewed as the major contributor to global warming. (Another
WWF project in the delta is to find a way of measuring just how great a
threat release of that CO2 might be.)

Shortly before the Prince’s arrival, it was revealed that thousands of
villagers had been evicted from the forest, their huts in the paddy fields
torched and their coconut palms felled. This was carried out by the
Tanzanian government’s Forestry and Beekeeping Division, with which WWF has
been working. But Stephen Makiri, the head of WWF Tanzania, was quick to
insist that WWF had never advocated expelling communities from the delta,
and that “the evictions were carried out by government agencies”.

At this point, however, two American professors intervened. They had just
published a study of the delta in an environmental journal, entitled “The
REDD menace: resurgent protectionism in mangrove forests”. It was highly
critical of the so-called “fortress conservation” policy advocated by WWF
under REDD+, claiming that it was seriously damaging the traditional life of
those local communities which had been sustainably farming and fishing in
the area for centuries.

>>>> Read the omitted paragraphs at the links provided

When a series of scandals blew up two years ago over the more alarmist claims
made by the IPCC in its 2007 assessment report, the two which attracted most
headlines were shown to have been based, not on peer-reviewed science, but
on campaigning material put out by WWF. One of these, a prediction that the
Himalayan glaciers might all have melted within 30 years, was sourced from a
WWF paper based only on a magazine interview with an obscure Indian
scientist (who was subsequently employed by the research institute run by
the IPCC’s chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri).

The other, a claim that drought
caused by global warming could lead to the destruction of 40 per cent of the
Amazon rainforest, was revealed – by my colleague Dr Richard North and this
column – to have originated in a WWF propaganda leaflet based on research
that had not been concerned with climate change at all, but with the damage
being done to the forest by logging and fires.

Exhaustive analysis, led by the Canadian author Donna Laframboise, then
revealed that nearly a third of the 18,531 sources cited by the report had
no more scientific provenance than press clippings, student theses and
claims by activist groups – among which none was more prominent than WWF.
But worse was to come. In her recent book on the IPCC, The Delinquent
Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert, Laframboise
shows how, from 2004 on, WWF deliberately set out to recruit contributors to
the IPCC’s next report to its Climate Witness Scientific Advisory Panel.
The result was that WWF “climate witnesses” contributed to two thirds of the
2007 report’s 44 chapters, including every one of the 20 chapters in the
section on the impacts of climate change. A third of all the chapters in the
report had WWF witnesses as co-ordinating lead authors, ultimately
responsible for their contents.As Laframboise summed up, her analysis
confirmed that, far from the report being the work of dispassionate
scientists, “the IPCC has been infiltrated… wholly and entirely
compromised”.

Many of these WWF panel members are now at work on the IPCC’s new report, due
out next year. WWF has been so successful in getting its allies into key
official positions that, in 2007, the chief executive of WWF UK, Robert
Napier, was able to slip seamlessly into a new job as chairman of Britain’s
Met Office. This is another body which, through its Hadley Centre on climate
change, has been a central player in promoting alarm over global warming
ever since 1990, when the centre was set up by Sir John Houghton, one of the
IPCC’s founding fathers.

WWF has had only one real setback in its ascent to such influence. In March
2010, I reported here on its part in a hugely ambitious scheme, backed by
$250 million from the World Bank under an earlier version of REDD, to turn
the CO2 locked in the Amazon rainforest into “carbon credits” worth an
estimated $60 billion. The idea was that these would be saleable on the
world carbon market, to enable firms in the developed world to stay in
business by buying the right to continue emitting CO2. WWF and others were
granted selling rights by the Brazilian government over an area of forest
twice the size of Switzerland. But, following the twin failures of the UN’s
2009 Copenhagen World Climate Conference, and the bid to give the US a
compulsory “cap and trade” scheme, the project came to nothing.

WWF set itself up as a fully for profit business- to sell Carbon credits- Just an incredible hoaxAnd of course Canada is getting sucked right into this carbon hoax

Just how far WWF has travelled from the noble purposes for which it was set up
was perfectly symbolised by the way it chose as its chief marketing tool the
slogan “Adopt a polar bear”. If this organisation still had concern for
endangered species closest to its heart, it would know that the idea that
polar bears are dying out due to global warming is no more than sentimental
propaganda. But then that is the main business that WWF now seems to be in –
very much at the expense of the rest of us and, of course, those communities
in the Rufiji delta.

And finally Prince Phillip on killing a beautiful tiger for sport:

It also documents how Prince Philip, the first president of WWF in
Britain, shot a tiger in Ranthambhore tiger park in India shortly before
the group was founded. In an interview with Huismann, Philip said: "I
have never been big game hunting. No, never, except that one time in
India. The only way you can be sure of getting a reasonable wildlife
population is by making sure that they are balanced. You can't just
leave it to nature."

Prince Phillip the arrogant arsehole-"You can't just leave it to nature!- Says the entitled SOB

Say no to Earth Hour, Green/Brain Washing. Don't support the elitist WWF, Greenpeace or any other NGO's for that matter.

"Direct U.S. military intervention in Syrian
territory as well as arming factions in Syria and encouraging them to
challenge the authority of the state does not serve the fight against
terrorism," he said

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Friday the battle to recapture Raqqa would restart in the coming days.- Clearly doesn't care what Syria has to say

The Trump administration moves forward. Expanding the war on Syria. The US has long, long ago invaded Syria. Arming factions that have not only challenged the central state authority, but with US assistancethey have annexed vast swathes of Syrian and Iraqi territory.. Yup, I'm talking ISIS and the Kurds. The story is all in the maps. The geography of ISIS's march from Mosul through Iraq and into Syria- taking territory for Kurdistan- In plain sight

“This is pretty major,” Col. Joseph Scrocca, a spokesman for the U.S.-led military coalition that is fighting ISIL militants in Syria and Iraq, told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday

The United States is deepening its involvement in the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after an unprecedented American airlift of Arab and Kurdish fighters to the front lines in northern Syria, supported by the first use of U.S. attack helicopters and artillery in the country.

U.S. officials said the operation inserted Syrian Arab and Kurdish fighters behind ISIL lines west of Raqqa, subjecting the American personnel to a degree of risk previously avoided in Syria. The mission was focused on recapturing the dam, the nearby town of Tabqa and a local airfield.

By design, the operation is coinciding with a potentially climactic battle for Mosul, the main ISIL stronghold in Iraq. Together, the battles reflect a U.S. strategy of presenting IS with multiple challenges simultaneously.

“It is certain the US had desired and originally planned for Raqqa and Mosul to be taken at the same time. Literally, simultaneously.

The taking of the two key cities, Mosul and Raqqa, is pivotal for the US/Israel plan for Kurdistan aka Israel 2.0. Since their plan has been for one unified Kurdish territory in Iraq, Syria and Turkey”

Better late then not all! Sure there have been delays, but, it’s certain that the US/Israel loves it when their plan finally comes together

NP“The U.S. airlift, known in military parlance as an air assault, marked a new level of commitment to Syria’s Kurds, whose partnership with the U.S. has prompted difficult discussions with Turkey. The U.S.-NATO ally sees the Kurdish fighters as a national security threat because of their links to militants inside Turkey”

YPG = PKK (rebranded , think marketing, for Syrian destabilization) = Terrorists proxies of US/Israel. There are dozens and dozens of posts demonstrating quite clearly the idea of the YPG being 'Syria's kurds' are patently false.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces confirmed the U.S. airlift and said their fighters seized four villages south of the Euphrates and cut the main artery between Raqqa and northwestern Syria.

Cutting off SAA & allies- Taking more Syrian territoryMeanwhile the destroyers of Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey plot in Washington

In Washington, the U.S. hosted top officials from 68 nations for a meeting on accelerating the fight against IS in all its dimensions.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (Trump’s secretary of State) told the coalition’s first ministerial gathering since President Donald Trump took office that the U.S. was still refining its strategy, but was clear about American priorities.

“The Canadian military has begun to study options for an operation in Syria, for the Liberal government to consider as U.S. president Donald Trump hints he may expand the 16-year-old war on terrorism by sending more troops to that country

It is not publicly known whether the Trump government has asked Ottawa to contribute troops or assist in other ways in the war against ISIL in Syria, or to take on other roles in the war on terror. But if there is anything to be taken from the example of the war in neighbouring Iraq, where Canada has been a participant since August, 2014, such a request is possible.

Canadian special forces man an observation bunker, Monday, February 20, 2017 in northern Iraq.

Don’t they mean such an order is a given? Because Canada goes where it’s told to go- Like straight to hell as is the present case! (Canada has turned into a wretched nation)

Canada is one of 17 countries currently assisting Iraqi and Kurdish forces in Iraq. About Canadian 800 troops now involved in what the Canadian Forces calls Operation Impact. About 70 are elite Special Forces from the Ontario-based JTF2. They train, advise and assist Kurdish fighters and when at risk themselves, have occasionally joined the fight.

Canada is already indirectly(that's directly involved) involved in the war in Syria. Since December, JTF2 has been advising Iraqi Kurds deployed near the Syrian border in northwestern Iraq”

Putting JTF2 right in bed with PKK terrorists- shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone given JTF2's ‘counterterrorism’ training- KurdIShIS-

If Canada were to become involved militarily( To become involved? Doublespeak, much?) in Syria again it could send a small number of JTF2 troops there in an advisory role. (They are already there) Another possibility is that Canada could be asked to provide “boots on the ground” to help protect civilians from violence in safe zones that Trump has said he intends to establish to prevent the Syrian refugee crisis from worsening.

Canadian Brig.-Gen. Dave Anderson, who heads the coalition’s strategic advisory team in Iraq, told Postmedia in an interview late last year that discussions were already taking place then about how “we — that is, the Iraqi security forces — can not only take Mosul but hold it afterwards.”

A bit of slip from Gen. Dave Anderson with the “we – that is, the Iraqi security forces” We indicating the deep and full involvement in taking Mosul undoubtedly occupying it afterwards

Canada’s Iraq mission could be extended indefinitely as part of that effort.

The potential ask for Canada to extend or expand its role in the region comes as Ottawa undertakes an open-ended commitment to lead a NATO battalion in Latvia from this June, and continue training missions in Poland and Ukraine

Canada, wretched nation. Any questions?

NPR-Big Changes And Major Dilemmas Loom In Next Phase Of ISIS War In Syria

Next phase of war. War expansion. No lack of clarity on the Trump administration plans

“The way ahead for the Trump administration amounts only to a " 'supersize' of the Obama plan," says Jennifer Cafarella of the Institute for the Study of War, which laid out a blueprint last week for the way ahead in Syria. But that isn't enough, she argues”

One last item of interest.. The destabilization of the ME/NA looks very nearly to be an US/UK/Israeli operation.With France/Canada/Germany/Norway playing smaller roles of support

“Even as Washington continues to figure out how to deal with Turkey, another big question involves its Arab allies.

The United States has long pressed for Arab states to participate in the anti-ISIS campaign, but has never been satisfied about their commitments. Jordan has sent some troops into Syria along its shared border, and Saudi Arabia has promised to send ground troops — but has not delivered.”

I just don’t think the US is that concerned- This is their plan. And Israel’s. And they keep advancing it! It's been interesting to observe the recalcitrant/reluctant behaviour of the aforementioned nation states, vs private players/NATO inbreds, to be involved with a regional remake that will see the demise of the said nation states. In other words- Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan haven't been willing to participate in their own destruction. Which has not really bothered the US or Israel one little bit. They had the PKK in their back pocket all along and those three parties had everything to gain. Think of Libya? Same/Same. The US was the biggest player in destroying Libya.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu recently sent a clear message
about his country's stance on the Syrian Kurds. "We do not wish any of
our allies to stand with terrorist groups," he said.

From Al Qaeda to ISIS and back to Al Qaeda again

Another progression or regression in narrative I’ve noticed the past little while is, as ISIS shrinks, AQ grows- In Iraq AQ morphed into ISIS- Which is reversing present day.Emmanuel Goldstein / Goldstein Emmanuel only to become Emmanuel Goldstein again?The switcheroo probably has some relation to a move towards Africa. Might just be time for a rebrand too? After all it’s been years since ISIS emerged. I'm in my tenth year of blogging and when PFYT began in 08, it was all AQ, all the time.

Think about this?

War is .....

WAR IS THE CONTINUATION OF STATE POLICY, BY OTHER MEANS

WAR IS A POLITICAL ACTIVITY IN WHICH VIOLENCE IS USED TO BEND THE WILL OF YOUR ENEMY TO THAT OF YOUR OWN

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